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Tornado Watch 195
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 16, 2006, 1:39 PM CDT for 17 counties in Illinois; 45 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2006, 1:39 PM CDT (18:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2006, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 62 counties
Champaign County, IL, Clark County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Ford County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Richland County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Benton County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Miami County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Newton County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, White County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
53 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Warren | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Montgomery, Tippecanoe | 43 min |
| Apr 16, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Montgomery, Tippecanoe | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kankakee, Will | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clinton, Montgomery, Tippecanoe | 45 min |
| Apr 16, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Livingston | 45 min |
| Apr 16, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign | 44 min |
| Apr 16, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Kankakee, Will | 40 min |
| Apr 16, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas, Moultrie, Shelby | 62 min |
| Apr 16, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Clinton | 29 min |
| Apr 16, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Cumberland | 51 min |
| Apr 16, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Clinton, Howard, Tipton | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Kankakee, Will | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Jasper | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas | 56 min |
| Apr 16, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Ford, Iroquois | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Coles, Douglas | 41 min |
| Apr 16, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Howard, Tipton | 45 min |
| Apr 16, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Clark, Cumberland | 44 min |
| Apr 16, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Cumberland, Effingham, Shelby | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Edgar | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Crawford, Jasper | 45 min |
| Apr 16, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | LaSalle | 39 min |
| Apr 16, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Iroquois | 53 min |
| Apr 16, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Iroquois | 64 min |
| Apr 16, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Douglas | 54 min |
| Apr 16, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Edgar, Vermilion | 30 min |
| Apr 16, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Sullivan | 42 min |
| Apr 16, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Crawford, Cumberland, Effingham, Jasper | 62 min |
| Apr 16, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Parke, Vermillion | 43 min |
| Apr 16, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Knox | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Edgar | 30 min |
| Apr 16, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Edgar | 52 min |
| Apr 16, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Kankakee | 66 min |
| Apr 16, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Sullivan | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Sullivan | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOT | Iroquois | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Crawford, Jasper | 67 min |
| Apr 16, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Parke, Vermillion | 64 min |
| Apr 16, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 7:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Crawford | 42 min |
| Apr 16, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Sullivan | 38 min |
| Apr 16, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Vermilion | 25 min |
| Apr 16, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Fountain, Warren | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Knox | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 7:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | Crawford, Jasper | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Clay, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo | 25 min |
| Apr 16, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Crawford, Jasper, Lawrence, Richland | 66 min |
| Apr 16, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene, Sullivan | 34 min |
| Apr 16, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Daviess, Greene, Knox, Sullivan | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 8:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Knox, Martin, Sullivan | 4 hr |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 76 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 841 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 10:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hancock, Henderson, Mercer, Rock Island, Warren | 119 min |
| Apr 15, 11:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Pike | 66 min |
| Apr 16, 7:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Saline | 2 hr |
| Apr 16, 10:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Boone, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Carroll and 33 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 16, 11:17 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 44 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 16, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 16, 1:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Crawford, Douglas, Edgar, Ford and 3 more | 97 min |
| Apr 16, 1:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass and 45 more | 57 min |
| Apr 16, 3:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 16, 3:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 49 more | 92 min |
| Apr 16, 3:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall and 6 more | 85 min |
| Apr 16, 6:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 19 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.